My kids >> my kids all I know lots I think you can also Good evening. Welcome to the August 4th city council meeting. to join me for a moment of silence in the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of
America and to the republic for it stands. Okay, Miss Olowski, roll call, please. >> Michelle Vulk >> here. >> Luke Helier >> here. >> John Burmel >> here. >> Dan Walter >> here. >> And Joshua Lee is absent.
>> Okay. Uh, moving on to item number three, citizens comments. There's an opportunity for anybody to address the council for up to three minutes about an issue not on the agenda. Seeing none. Okay. Um, additional agenda information, Mr. Miller? >> Nothing tonight, Mayor.
>> Okay. And we will then get right into our presentation with our police department quarterly report. We'll turn it over to Chief Pollson for the rundown. >> Hopefully, >> you don't have it memorized. I don't,
but I have a backup. But we're on board now. So, uh, so this is our quarter 2 report covering the months of April through June of this year. And all of the work that we do is framed under our mission statement, which says a Lakeville Police Department exists to ensure an excellent quality of life in
Lakeville by serving and protecting in a professional and innovative way. So, kind of the theme of quarter two for us was uh some transition uh and using the sports analogy was more like uh a couple of line changes than substitutions, but we had a lot of
movement um but some some positive movement. So, as you can see here, four retirements uh over the course of a few weeks in late June and the first couple days of July, about 120 years of dedicated service to Lakeville PD with those four gentlemen there. So losing a
lot of uh really good people, a lot of experience uh but really happy to see them enjoying uh moving into the next phase, the retirement phase of their lives. So Commander Jim Punchikar who was our uh administrative commander, uh Bill Gur who was our operations
commander, Jason Pollinsky, who was most recently in professional standards but had touched a lot of different units in the in the PD. and then Doyle Cochril who was our senior sergeant uh who had been a supervisor for about seven years prior to his retirement. So,
uh proud of uh the work that all four of those gentlemen uh provided to the city. With that obviously comes some uh some backfilling. So, uh three new lieutenants. We did a little bit of a of a restructure. So, we've added three
lieutenants to the two current existing lieutenants, but these are our uh new faces to the to the lieutenant role. On the left there, Jeff Hansen, who will be our support lieutenant. In the middle is Thor How, who will be uh our professional standards lieutenant, and then Jeremy Lurfeld on the right, uh
moving into operations, where he'll join Jason Haidider to oversee primarily our patrol division as well as our CSOS. Moving further along the line here with some new sergeants. So, um, back at our quarter one report, we highlighted Tom
Danielson, so he's not pictured here, but, uh, the four newest additions to the sergeant ranks on the left, Allison Shank, and then Nick Jacobson, Sarah Man, and Casey King. Uh, all with a number of years of experience with Lakeville PD. Uh, and these are
frontline supervisors and, uh, all very good police officers. They they know the job very well. They're good at uh administering the job. Uh but even more with our frontline supervisors, we look for a mentorship role there that people that have u you know shown the ability
to to coach, to guide, to teach, and all four of these folks have done that through various roles as field trainers, instructors, and we know they'll step into that role and have stepped into that role already and are are doing very well. Uh, I should pass along a little
extra recognition here to our human resources director, Alyssa Fry, and her staff for helping uh facilitate all of this movement over the course of the past few months. So, they've done an outstanding job helping us out there. Uh, moving along to uh the K9 world. K9
Nora uh was new to the PD earlier this year, but has now completed uh the vast majority of her initial training. She's paired up with Jolene Warden. Jolene's been an officer for coming up on four years, but uh they've been out on the road now. She's got Nora has her patrol
certification, participated in their first Panaprog K9 demo here a few weeks ago. So, good to good to have them out there working. And then, uh some new patrol officers as well. Uh Justin Engel, who joins us from
Mystic Lake. uh he was a security supervisor out there um and then moved into a a role coordinating uh some of the entertainment they get out there kind of being the liaison for Mystic Lake that works with uh entertainment groups that come in and then uh going a
little bit further back he's got a connection here to Lakeville as a reserve officer with us was a liquor store associate and then a community service officer for three years. So, always good to get some of these folks uh cycling back through in a patrol officer role.
And then one of his partners out at Mystic Lake joined him. So, uh Alex Conl also security supervisor out at the casino. He has his bachelor's degree in law enforcement from Mano. Uh both of these guys as a direct result of our internal um recruitment efforts. Josh
Wickner, an officer we hired late last year, came from Mystic Lake and has enjoyed his experience and spread the word and uh allowed us to hire a couple of other really good quality candidates here. So, welcome to Justin and Alex. And then uh these two folks are part of
our grant program um which is kind of winding down here, but Josh Enavald and Megan Karp uh started their schooling at Henipin County or Henipin Technical College, I should say, uh back in February. They wrapped up in July uh with school and now they've moved into
our traditional field training program. They started about two weeks ago. Uh but again, we we're paying these folks as full-time employees while they're going through school uh providing the cost for their tuition and then that's um reimbured to us through a grant uh for
up to 50,000 per candidate through the uh Department of Public Safety. So, uh we ended up having three move through that program now. So Nick Navo was the first and he's just winding up winding down his field training program and then Josh and Megan as well.
Some of our community engagement efforts in quarter two on the left there, those two pictures are from our open house which was on Memorial Day weekend back in May. We were fortunate to have another good weather year for that. Uh but that's a really good way for uh a lot of community members, families to
come out and have a lot of interactive uh fun with some of our staff. Some booths set up with a lot of good hands-on activities and equipment that they can uh climb on and look at and and interact with our folks. Uh the upper right there is a torch run which was in
July. We start the South Metro leg of the torch run. This is a partnership with Special Olympics, which has a long-standing tradition of of pairing with law enforcement. We bring the torch up to Crystal Lake Beach and pass it off to Burnsville PD, who takes it from
there. I think we had about 14 or 15 uh runners and bikers this year. And K9 Nora led the pack as you can see there. She had a little more energy than some of us did, but but we all made it. So, that was a a good day. And then on the right, moving on the turf. This was early June on the turf up at Lakeville
North High School. Um, a lot of uh toys and handouts that are provided from community sponsors, food, games, activities, and then a movie as the uh sun starts to go down there. So, looks like our staff there is probably having more fun than just as much fun as the kids. But, uh, they enjoy being out
there, too. Just a brief update on the first center. If you haven't been by lately, the uh the warehouse on the far east side of the property is has some walls up. So, uh and a lot of dirt moved, which is fun for our staff to see and our partners to see. Uh some visible
signs of progress here and helps to get excited for that project moving forward. Uh we did tour another uh local facility to talk uh staffing, just look at their staffing arrangements and how that could uh work with ours. uh human resources staff joined us on that meet just to get
a better understanding of what that could look like. Uh we're also working with our our legal folks on uh finalizing some membership agreements with our partners and we have four agencies that have uh uh submitted letters of interest to uh to sign on to those membership agreements as capital
members which is our highest tier of membership. So good to see the progress there. Uh, one note on a public safety foundation grant from back in May. They helped to um sponsor two of our officers, Carrie Work and Brian Smith,
uh, out at National Police Week in Washington DC. They were part of the uh, law enforcement uh, bike ride uh, from I believe it's Atlantic City, New Jersey into Washington DC about 250 miles over four days. So, uh, probably a little bit
of soreness there, but they got there and were part of the Cantalate Vigil and, uh, great to have them represent RPD out there. A little bit more meaning this year with Burnsville officers being recognized on the wall, um, back in May. And then, uh, a snapshot of some of our
training and development in April, May, and June. There's a lot of bullet points, a lot of uh, acronyms there. Um the point here is just the the variety of skill sets that our staff um stays on top of. So quarter one is a lot of our mandatory training to uh keep our
licenses um uh active with firearms training, defensive tactics. About 80% of our staff is sworn staff, which means we uh have to fulfill all of the post uh training requirements. But as we move through the year, we can move into some of these more specialized uh trainings
and assignments. Um, and we've also worked with our communication staff here in Lakefield to uh put out some videos on social media to um talk through some pieces of equipment that maybe the community has more questions on and what the uh equipment does and sometimes more importantly what it does not do. So, you
can look for some of those videos out on social media. Moving into uh a few statistical slides here, our quarter two uh case files. These are police reports uh actually generated. we were uh up a little bit
from 2024 up about a 100 police reports. And then uh this is a slide we've been showing here for a little over a year, but these are calls that go into dispatch um where the caller is um involved or around some type of mental health crisis. They don't necessarily
want a police response. They want some mental health help. So these are steered from dispatch directly to to our crisis response um social services. this number uh 17 calls in quarter two for Lakeville was down significantly from quarter 1 um
which you know hopefully could be a good trend. That's a good thing. The real key number that we look at on this is the number of times the police actually end up getting involved and we've seen uh as you can see here 24% of the time uh that number is hovered right around um you know 20 to 30% where police are
involved. So, it is doing its job of um you know, streamlining that service right to social social services and getting those folks the help that uh that they need on their call for service. And then uh it's it's buried a little bit up top there, but our total calls
for service, as you can see, are down almost 2,000 in quarter 2 from 2024. And a real driving force of that is our medical response. It doesn't mean that we have less medical calls in the city, but with our fire department moving to full-time fire, there's a lot more of of
those calls that we are not going to based on their um response times and capabilities. So, that's uh I think really positive development citywide. It frees our staff up to do some other things. And then moving down to our mental health related calls or the welfare checks stayed pretty uh
consistent and our crisis mental health calls were up a little bit. Some of that's driven by our um liaison that goes out with mental health uh folks after the fact and does some follow-up calls. Those are factored into that 136 number for for 2025.
And then more on the traffic side of things, our traffic stops uh were relatively um stable year-over-year. Property property damage crashes were uh about the same. And then our injury crashes were up by about 13. Again, these are crashes where uh one or more
occupants reports any type of injury. So, all all levels of injury are included in that number. Then looking at our comparisons to some of our neighboring agencies and communities there. Again, our number 12 uh just over 12,000 pretty comparable to
Burnsville to the north and a little bit below Egan, a little bit above Apple Valley. And some of the offenses that we look at um at these quarterly reports are driving under the influence uh arrests were up by 20 in in quarter two. Um
that's a direct result of having some staff that had some time to get out there and be more proactive in uh in enforcing those um offenses. We have uh undergone a lot of training and um and education on the side of uh impairment
outside of uh what I would call more traditional alcohol impairment uh with the legalization of of cannabis and prevalence of uh opioids and prescription drugs. Our staff are are doing a lot more in recognizing some of the impairments related to that type of
uh impairment as well. uh assaults both aggravated and other were up uh 2025 or over 2024, but property crime property uh related crimes, motor vehicle theft, damage, vandalism uh were down um this year over
last. And then finally, just uh a few um snapshots from our social media on the left there, our recruiting pitch for uh our community service officer position. We found throwing uh puppies in always helps uh with the engagement. The middle
there is some uh photo photographs of our reserves, some different events that they were at. And the far right uh we jumped in, I guess, on the action figure meme trend with the uh stereotypical police officer with a donut and the energy drink. So with that, uh happy to
answer any questions that you may have. >> Okay. Council questions, comments. >> Have a quick one. >> Yeah. um when you were giving the um information on the training and you mentioned what the first quarter is usually
entails is um is that the schedule that every police department goes through or I guess I'm thinking about the four that have signed up and and if you're all on the same schedule or do different departments rotate those trainings.
Yeah, I can't say everybody does it the exact same way. That's probably more common than not just because you have to get those in no matter what. So, a lot of people like us just want to make sure that as the year goes by, you don't run out of time or run out of space. One of
the advantages with our partnerships is the uh early booking period where you can book that lock up that space in the fall before the preceding year. Uh because that's one of the challenges for us. If we wait too long, that space isn't there. we won't have to worry about that with facility now. So that
will certainly help in that regard. >> Thank you. >> I just uh I want to say I know this is not a Q2 thing but close enough. But I just want to extend my gratitude to the PD csos and reserves for the job during paniprog. It seemed everything went pretty well it seemed like from a public
safety standpoint. So kudos to your team and working with their team. So thank you. >> Yes, we appreciate it. We'll have some photos in quarter three. So yes, >> I'm glad I could pre preview it for you. Yes, there's more to come. >> Thank you. All right, moving on to item number six, our consent agenda. These
are routine items typically for the council. And Mr. Miller, anything you wanted to highlight? >> Thank you, mayor. A couple tonight. Uh item 6 I, 6K, 6L, and 6M are all internal policies that um are updates to our personnel policy. The personnel
committee did review these, and these are basically updates to conform with state statutes that have changed uh changed recently. And then item 6J is a professional services agreement with RJM Construction. They will serve as our construction manager at the new fire station that is currently in design.
>> Okay. Council, anything you'd like to pull for further discussion? Not take a motion to approve the Yep. Council member Walter. >> I move approval of the consent agenda. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Okay. >> Any further discussion? Seeing none, all
those in favor say I. I. >> I. >> Post. It passes. We'll move on to 7A, public hearing on application for Joyy's Thai Cuisine for an on sale wine and on sale 32 malt liquor license. And I believe our clerk has just a quick update for us.
>> Yeah, real quick. Um Joyce Thai Cuisine has been operating under their previous legal entity name as Joy Thai Cuisine. They've recently um made a change in their restructuring and now they're going to operate under their new entity name which is Joy Thai
Cuisine LLC. They ownership and management of the restaurant will remain the same and they don't see any other changes. >> Okay. Beauty of the law. Um this is a public hearing. I'll open that now if there's any comment about the license.
And seeing none, I'll take a motion to close the public hearing. >> Make a motion to close the public hearing. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Okay. Public hearing is closed. I will now take a motion or discussion on the
change of the name on the light liquor license. Council Burma. >> Uh I move to grant an on sale wine and on sale 3.2% 2% malt liquor license for Joyy's Thai Cuisine LLC located at 770460th
Street West. >> Okay. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Okay. Any further discussion? Okay. Roll call, please. >> Folk >> I. >> Helier. >> I. >> Burmal >> I. >> Walter. >> I. >> Okay. Congratulations to those guys.
Thanks for your continued investment in our community. Uh, moving on to item B, ordinance amending title 10 and 11 of the city code and summary ordinance for publication. And I'll have our community development director, Miss Goodroad, tee this up. And just as a a background, this was maybe she'll talk about it, but
some of these things came out of a conversation that I had had with our development community about a year ago, I would guess, where we had a round table with um some builders thinking about how we can better serve to do some things uh related to actually some of the things we're already doing in areas
just in PUB and and others. So, I'll turn over to you for the update. >> Thank you. Um good evening, mayor, members of the um council. Um and as the mayor said, um this is work um in this ordinance that came out of um a lot of those past discussions. So before you
this evening are amendments to title 10, the subdivision section, and title 11, the zoning ordinance. Again, just a little bit of history. A lot of these initiatives come from our comprehensive plan. Um and things that we're seeing um change with that future plan. Um part of
it's just part of our annual development regulation review and amendment. We usually come before you a couple of times a year with some amendments. And then last summer, we did have a pretty deep dive discussion with about 10 of our local builders, um, both local as well as national builders that are very
active in Lakeville. And we just kind of had a heart-to-he heart conversation about what are things that we could do to our code to make it a little bit easier to build housing. Um, we also brought these ideas to the planning commission in a work session in December and then a follow-up work session in
January, which basically was the content for what this ordinance began. Um, we did pause as we were waiting to see what might happen through the last legislative session. Nothing did come out of that, but we felt we were ready to move forward with our ordinances. So, I'll go through and highlight and then
if you have questions um on the specifics, um the work was prepared by our planning consultant Dan Lit. He provided a very detailed memo that was both in the planning commission packet as well as in your packet. Um that kind of digs a little deeper than I'm kind of
covering tonight. Um but one of the first things that the ordinance does is it eliminates that extra size garage for dwellings without basements. That was probably one of the top things the builders brought up. The requirement is unique to Lakeville. Builders usually have to work through some kind of
Lakeville specific design to provide for that. And so the recommendation from both planning commission council was to move that back down to 440 um for those types of structures. Um so that change um has been made. In addition to that, in some of our larger lot residential
districts, we do require right now a site plan that allows for the third car garage stall. just to prove that out. We don't believe that ordinance is necessary. These lots are all of the sufficient size to accommodate for that.
The next thing we looked at is our lot sizes and what can we do to make it a little bit easier um little less hoops to jump through to have the smaller lots. So right now in our RS4 by conditional use or I'm sorry by our RS2
district which is on the left hand side the RS2 allows by conditional use permit um the ability to do 7500 square foot lots. We wanted to change that, make it a little bit more flexible. And so the proposal is on the right, making RST2
7500 square feet or 55 foot wide lots by right without having that cup. And then we added it to the RS4. That one we did keep as um a cup. This just makes um it a little bit easier in some of our
districts to do the smaller lots. Again, we really work hard with developers as we're going through the sketch plan review, as we're going through the plary plat review to have a mixture of lots, but it does allow that. Um, by eliminating that cup in the one
district, it allows it's one less hurdle to jump through. Within that cup language was a lot of other criteria. We still have um language in here in the amendment that requires, you know, quality design, particularly curve linear streets. One of the concerns
staff has with, you know, a development that might come in with a whole row of all 75s, you're going to look down, it's going to look like a tunnel. And so, we want to have that language in there. We work hard to get that, but when it's an ordinance, it makes it even easier.
Um, the next one, um, deals with exterior materials. Um, we took out the requirement that you have to use brick or stone on the front and added in here that you can allow um or utilize engineered wood or cement fiber sighting, also known as Hardy board, as
one of those requirements. You can also vary the type and texture material. So, you could have um um two different styles of the Hardy board to count for that major material. So, think farmhouse style design. You can't do a full
farmhouse style design, which is usually a white home with a black outline for the windows or the black frame I should call it for the windows. You can't do that under the code um at the top because the requirement for the brick. Oftentimes those will have a couple of
different styles, shake and cedar um style um types of elevation versus the brick. So this ordinance would allow that. other amendments. Um we modified the base lot provisions. Um there's a lot of
contradictory requirements and it also um results in less effective use of the property. So we simplify the base lot provisions. So it allows better utilization of land and it's just simply simply simple to read on the developer
side. I should be able to talk tonight on the developer side as well as when we're interpreting um all of these different plots. Um, next one is to utilize the RM3 standards in the RH districts when it comes to town homes. That's just something that's simply missing. Um, so having that reference
and making it clear because in the RH you can still do town homes. And then eliminating the RH district transition requirements um using single family or two family. The ordinance really just requires a tier or a row of town homes to serve as that transition. And then
eliminating um the minimum area for PUDS. This is something that's been in the ordinance for a long time. And what we're finding is as we are developing, we're dealing with smaller lots or smaller infill developments. And then also on the west side of 35, we're going
to have some tricky sites, topography, trees, wetlands, and so forth. So we want to make the use of PUDS more flexible. Again, not a mandate. I understand there was a lot of conversation in the legislation regarding PUDS. This just simply allows
a developer to request that. We still have to review it. Still has to meet the PUD criteria, but it does loosen up the ability to utilize those. So, that is the gist of the changes that really affect kind of what we've coined that missing middle or ability to broaden the
housing market um across um different price ranges. The other code update is just our regular stuff that we run into on a daily basis that just needs to get fixed. um encroachments. That was actually a code change that we did a couple of meetings ago. Um in the
subdivision ordinance, we identified um with the help of um attorney some variance process criteria that we needed to update. Um making sure it's very clear in the ordinance that street extensions have to go to the plat boundary. And then just other things
within the zoning ordinance regarding administration of cups and IUPs. um broadening the ability of commercial exterior finishes to also utilize that engineered wood. Um fixing some ant
right away for antennas. Um you can see the list there. And then um switching data centers as a cup in the OP district. So that's kind of a catchall for all of those other additional code changes um that are tied together um in
one ordinance with the missing middle. So, it's all um the subdivision portion is at the front of the ordinance followed by the zoning ordinance update and I would stand for any questions. >> Okay, council questions, comments. Council Walter,
>> um can you explain the antenna thing a little bit to me? >> What kinds of antennas are those? Of course you're going to ask me on that one. And I'm not sure if that was something um that was actually something that um
city attorney brought up um dealing with um placement of antennas within rights away um dealing with um the requirements for cups. So it's described on page nine of the
memo. I'm going to look to >> what kind of >> Miss Pal if she recalls why those amendments were they weren't consistent with uh state law. >> State law. Okay. So, we had to clean that up a little bit
>> and it's small cell wireless as I recall kept were being amended just the small cells. >> Thanks. >> Okay. would you just um talk a little bit about the multif family as permitted use in the RHCBD district?
>> Yeah, that was something that um wasn't clear as a permitted use. So, making sure that it's clear as a permitted use >> in the downtown district. >> Got it. Yep. Any other >> I'll just offer a comment on this. I want to applaud you, Mr. Mayor, on this
issue. Um this housing in the middle middle housing issue has been a big issue in the legislature the last couple of years and um with some scrutiny of of communities like Lakeville and you said let's meet with the local developers and roll up our sleeves and figure out what
we can do to address this rather than waiting for the um legislation at the state level that still has not come fortunately. So anyway, I just I I think this is a these are sensible uh updates and changes and it's it's a nice way to show that the city of Lakeville is
working with our developers and focused on that housing issue. So, thank you, >> Councilman Burma. >> I want to make a a similar comment. Um kudos. Uh this involves builders, it involves uh city staff. Uh and it's the
process. I want people to understand the process wasn't just like oh hey you know a week ago we thought let's look at this. This has been over a year of conversation and uh just give and take and reaching consensus and it's seem it's well
considered and and there's nothing in here that's unreasonable. Um so I'm uh I share my colleagues uh uh kudos for uh for everybody that was involved in the process.
I'll just say that the one thing I think is really important um for us to be proactive because you know as council member Walter and Burma mentioned some of the stuff that's happened in the legislature. You know one of the things that the legislature thinks is a really good idea is taking away the ability for the public to weigh in on these types of
projects. They want to eliminate public comment. And I think that us structuring, you know, some to be a little bit forward thinking and be an example to help protect some of those things like public comment and some of the crazy things that the legislator's proposed, I think is important. So, I'm
glad that we can kind of try to lead on this issue, certainly with, you know, being one of the faster growing cities in the last couple years. With that, I will take a motion to approve. Council member Burmel. >> I move to approve an ordinance amending
title 10 and title 11 of the city code and a summary ordinance for publication. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Okay. Any further discussion? >> Okay. Roll call, please. >> Burmal >> I. >> Walter. >> I. >> Folk I. >> Helier.
>> I. Thank you and thanks to staff for all your work with the everybody on the planning commission community to help make this happen. Um, moving on. Unfinish and new business. Seeing none, um, our next city council meeting is Monday, August 18th here at
city hall. Our next work session is August 25th in the Marian conference room. And with that, I'll take a motion to adjurnn. >> I'll move to adjurnn. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> All those in favor say I. >> I. >> I. Opposed. We're adjourned.